2008 World Series of Poker

Event 44 - $1,000 No Limit Hold'em w/Rebuys
Day: 3
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Event Info

2008 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♥j♦
Prize
$693,444
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Entries
879
Level Info
Level
24
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000

Final-Table Seat Assignments Set

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Maryland's Jesse Chinni takes the chip lead to the final table
Maryland's Jesse Chinni takes the chip lead to the final table
2pm PDT is the kickoff time for the finale in Event 44, $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em w/ Rebuys. A late surge in Thursday's session by Jesse Chinni has carried him to a dominant lead entering the finale, where he'll have over a 2:1 margin over second-place Rene Mouritsen.

The complete seat assignments, hometowns and chip counts for the finalists:

Seat 1: Scott Freeman (Los Angeles, California) -- 675,000
Seat 2: Max Greenwood (Toronto, Canada) -- 728,000
Seat 3: Curtis Kohlberg (Weston, Massachusetts) -- 209,000
Seat 4: Rene Mouritsen (Aarhus, Denmark) -- 1,007,000
Seat 5: Alex Bolotin (Brooklyn, New York) -- 308,000
Seat 6: Albert Iversen (Aarhus, Denmark) -- 921,000
Seat 7: Aliaksandr Dzianisau (Vitebsk, Belarus) -- 186,000
Seat 8: Phung Ngo (Commerce , Michigan) -- 556,000
Seat 9: Jesse Chinni (Ellicott City, MD) -- 2,160,000

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Final Table Bios: Seat 2: Max Greenwood (728,000)

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Max Greenwood - Seat 2
Max Greenwood - Seat 2
Max Greenwood is with us today from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a 23-year-old college student playing in his third WSOP. In his first year he failed to cash, but he racked up three in-the-money finishes last year and has already cashed in one event this year. Max says if he wins today, he plans on buying himself a nice house.

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Final Table Bios: Seat 3: Curtis Kohlberg (209,000)

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Curtis Kohlberg - Seat 3
Curtis Kohlberg - Seat 3
Curtis Kohlberg is a 50-year-old president of a management consulting firm. He is married and has three children. This is Curtis's fifth year at the WSOP, and he has cashed 14 times, earning more than a half million dollars. This is his second final table, but he is still looking for his first gold bracelet. If he does mange to win today, he says he'll give the jewelry to one of his children.

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Final Table Bios: Seat 4: Rene Mouritsen (1,007,000)

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Rene Mouritsen - Seat 4
Rene Mouritsen - Seat 4
Rene Mouritsen is 34 years old and comes to us from Aarhus, Denmark. Rene has 11 cashes in his WSOP career, including two runner-up finishes. He has tallied more than $720,000 in those cashes, but is still looking for his first bracelet. He begins play in second place and hopes to move up to first by the end of the day.

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Seat 5: Alex "Diesel" Bolotin (308,000)

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Alex Bolotin - Seat 5
Alex Bolotin - Seat 5
Alex Bolotin is originally from Belarus, but he comes here today as a resident of New York City. Alex has nine cashes in his WSOP career, including two already this year. His two this year were both final tables as well, making him three-for-three on the year! Last year, he finished second in a short-handed no-limit hold'em event, taking home more than a half million dollars. He is still looking for his first WSOP title, though, and hopes today is the day.

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Final Table Bios: Seat 8: Phung Ngo (556,000)

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Phung Ngo - Seat 8
Phung Ngo - Seat 8
Phung Ngo comes to the final table today from Commerce Township, Michigan, though he was born in Danang, Vietnam. He is 31 years old, married, and works as an engineer. It is a day of firsts for Ngo. In his first WSOP, he has already secured his first cash here today, and is playing at his first final table. Perhaps he'll be able to add one more first to that list by the end of play: his first gold bracelet.

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Final Table Bios: Seat 9: Jesse Chinni (2,160,000)

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Jesse Chinni - Seat 9
Jesse Chinni - Seat 9
Jesse Chinni is a native of Pompton Plains, New Jersey, but is now a resident of Ellicott City, Maryland. He is 22 years old and has four WSOP cashes in his two years playing, including two this year. Jesse won a monster pot just before play concluded on Day 2 to snatch the chip lead -- and a big one at that. He sits down with a lead of more than a million chips over his closest competitor, and if he can maintain that lead, he will walk away with his first gold bracelet.

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